The Need for Sleep

The Need for Sleep

Any leader”s goal should be to get the best out of his team, for each of them to perform to the best of their abilities to achieve the highest quality and most profitable end result.

Composition requires a high amount of cognitive clarity, we can agree on that. So check out this quote.

“Research by the US military has shown that losing just one hour of sleep per night for a week will cause a level of cognitive degradation equivalent to a .10 blood alcohol level. Worse: most people who’ve fallen into this state typically have no idea of just how impaired they are. Itâ€™s only when you look at the dramatically lower quality of their output that it shows up. ” Link

It’s common for composers to be given such schedules that they end up with very little sleep for extended periods. So how much better quality creative material could we deliver with more generous music production schedules?

I personally want to give 100% to the project I am on for two simple reasons:

1) it’s best for the film and for my relationship with the film makers